The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 79
But the Prince was wearying now to return to his own kingdom, so as soon as the feast was over he took farewell of the Emperor, and set out on his homeward way.
Who acts: Prince, emperor · What happens: weary, return, be, set out · To what, where: homeward way
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wearying | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wearying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wearying | aux |
| 5 | wearying | weary | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wearying | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wearying | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kingdom | amod |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soon | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 took | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 feast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 soon | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | cop |
| 21 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 23 took | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wearying | parataxis |
| 24 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Emperor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Emperor | det |
| 27 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 farewell | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 set | compound:prt |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 way | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 way | compound |
| 35 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wearying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | past · progressive | the Prince | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | to emperor's own kingdom result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | emperor | soon, take property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | emperor not said here | emperor's homeward way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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